Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness
Record details
- ISBN: 0674265106
- ISBN: 9780674265103
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Physical Description:
xviii, 494 pages ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. The asylum era: Mausoleums of the mad -- Disposing of degenerates -- Psychobiology -- Freud visits America -- The germ of madness -- Body and mind -- Shocking the brain -- The checkered career of electroconvulsive therapy -- Brain surgery -- Selling psychosurgery -- The end of the affair -- Part two. Disturbed minds: Creating a new psychiatry -- Talk therapy -- War -- Professional transformations -- A fragile hegemony -- Part three. A psychiatric revolution: The birth of psychopharmacology -- Community care -- Diagnosing mental illness -- The complexities of psychopharmacology -- Genetics, neuroscience, and the origins of mental illness -- The crisis of contemporary psychiatry -- Epilogue: Does psychiatry have a future? |
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Subject: | Mental illness Treatment United States History Psychiatry United States History Psychiatric ethics United States History |
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Martin Library | Adults 362.2 SCU Health Wellness (Text) | 33454005891189 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
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